Seems as though the year/semester is flying by! 5 more weekend until the Christmas weekend!!!WHAT!?! Guess I better get a move on... inqury project is going slow, but I think I am on the right track. Time is of the essence now and there doesn't seem to be enough of it in one day. Hopefully, time will slow down over the next few weeks so that I can get some of the work done that has been piling up. Who knew that there would be so much of it.
Found out that I am going to have an intern in the new year. This my first time having one and I am looking forward to the experience. I hope that she gets something from my experiences I have to sharer and that she becomes a better teacher than I. We will see.
I am working on incorporating the method that Pheonix Park has been using into my classroom... kind of... I like the idea of project work in class and have done so in a unit in grade 8, so I am trying to create one for a unit in grade 7 that is a unit that the grade 7 students tend not to do as well in. I am not sure the reason for it, be it the way I present it, the time of year it comes up , or maybe the back ground that they have in it. But, I am going to try a different approach this year to see if that works. It is not a unit that has been trouble in other schools that I have been in so I am wondering if it is a background thing. Either way, I am going to try a project based approach. Though I am not going to give my grade 7 students the freedom that is given at PP. I will be continually keeping them on task and guiding them in the right direction. We will see how it goes. Hopefully I won't have to abandon it and go back to what I did in the past.
They are a lovely group though and I think it will work well. Wish me luck!
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